Auberzinski family name

Live in USA now and the family name is now "Auberzinski" I was told that when my grandfather came to the states he shorted the family surname, so I have only the name we use today. any help would be great. please email me at niterythm_1@yahoo thank you for any help. Tammie L. Auberzinski

AUBERZIŃSKI: doesn't exist in today's Poland; the au diphtong does not occur in indigenous Polish words, only in borrowings such as auto. Neither could I find Oberżyński which is more Polish in form. Since what you gave is already quadrisyllabic, it is diffciult to imagine it being shortened from something even longer. Sorry I couldn't help but with so little to work with... See if you can't dig up some of your ancestor's Old Country documents which should give the original spelling.

Yea, I have been working on finding the documentation on the family name. Thank you for the help.

Could it be Oborzyński?
There's 79 people with the name of Oborzyński in Poland.

Try to check out with French lastnames "Auberge" or "Aubergine". Maybe, some of your ancestors emmigrated from France to Poland and slightly changed their name. Or if there is some pronounced French community in Poland, they might have additional info on that.

The only surnames currently used in Poland starting in “aub” are: Aubek, Aubick, Aubrecht, Aubrecht-Prcdzinski and Aubrecht-Prondziński.
But if your document was handwritten in that fancy old-style script, sometimes the ‘u’ or ‘w’ have been known to be taken for the letter ‘m’. Maybe it was actually Ambroziński?

Thank you, I will look into that. I appericate all the help everyone has given me.

Some Poles claim to know the meaning of aubergine as they told me it was sth similar in Polish. It's egg plant in America, nasu in Japanese. The name could exist but I'd go with SHT above.

aubergine is oberżyna in Polish which is definitely derived from the French version of the name of the plant - there is also a different name used in Polish to describe the plant which is bakłażan which is I guess Turkish in origin

Turkish? That sounds about right. Many Americans don't know what an aubergine is. Oberzinski may be the right name.

so? Many Poles don't know what a "jajkowa roślina" is

What was your Grandfather's first name ? And where do you think he was born ?

If you have enough information you can check him in Ship's Records.

Are all the other Auberzinski's related to you ? There are quite a few.

The name has nothing to do with aubergines. It is a misspelling of a Russian, Polish, Lithuanian etc name. Possibly Jewish.

Talking with a few of the older Auberzinski/auberzinsky family members, found out that the name was shorted when Julius and Mary naturalized in 1901. They came to the US in 1890. The name is only part of what the original name is...so I am at a dead end, unless a family member has the naturalization records of Julius and Mary. Wish me luck, once I found the full spelling I will then be back for more research. Thank you. :)

Perhaps it was after all a surname of german origin: Auber and then when they settled in Poland it could become Auberzynski, naturally. "Oberżyna" aka "Bakłażan" would not have developed from that.

This might be a longshot but there’s a very rare surname “Aubrecht-Prondziński”. Although at first glance it looks like someone’s first and last name I assure you it is not, it’s a legit surname. The first part comes from German name “Albert” the origins of the second part are unknown and baffles the researchers. If your family come to US from what used to be Prussia it might be worth looking into, even if it turns out to be a dead end. Good luck.

You are probably referring to some surname database in Poland. A simple Google search shows about 400 references to "Oberżyński" name plus several references to "Oberżyńska", with this exact spelling.

With all due respect to the eggplant fruit, a.k.a. "aubergine", which gave raise to Polish "oberżyna", there is another French word - "auberge". It stands for an inn, hostel or public house in English, and to "oberża", "karczma", "gospoda" in Polish.

The word "oberża" could therefore be an origin of a surname Oberżyński in Polish. If a person was a Jew, and if he was in "oberża" business (Many, if not the most, inns in the former Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth were run by Jews), this is very likely that he was given the name "Oberżyński" - at the times when Jews were obliged to accept surnames. Mind you - I am just speculating here.

Anyone with such family name who landed in America, would have to do something with "z with dot" and "n with acute", leading to simplified name "Oberzynski". Why "Ober" was then replaced by "Auber" is anyone guess: possibly some pronunciation issues, or bad associations with German-based jokes - as in "Mister Ober Zynski = Mister Upper Zynski". And the last cleanup would involve replacement of "y" by "i", for whatever reason. So this entire process would not be just a "shortening of the name" but its serious modification.

Here is some additional advice on searching Auberzinski = Oberzynski = Oberżyński names. Assuming that this is indeed a Jewish name you may proceed as follows.

Step 1. Go to AVOTAYNU, Consolidated Jewish Surname Index, avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.htm
Enter Surname to be Searched: OBERZYNSKI
In response you will get a list of names, somewhat sounding like OBERZYNSKI, but only one exact match, with SOUNDEX 074645, and only one database pointer: A.

At the bottom of that page there is a list of all available databases and one of them is: A.

A. Jewish Records Indexing - Poland , jewishgen.org/jri-pl/jriplweb.htm
(231,973 surnames). An index to over 2,400,000 Jewish birth, marriage, divorce and death records located in the archives of Poland. An on-going project--continuously updated. Online database

Step 2. So go there and continue your search.

I ran a quick search there on the Surname (is Exactly) OBERZYNSKI. I had no other information to add.
Two lists were returned: one from Kalisz Gubernia, and one from Piotrkow Gubernia (Gubernia = Russian for Province, more or less).

Kalisz Gubernia: A record for Nachman Puter 1847, Father Jakob, Mother Drejza, Mother's surname OBERZYNSKI .
Piotrkow Gubernia: A record for Gdala Oberzynski 1861, male, no other details

There are many other options you can choose from for various names: (is Exactly, Sounds Like, Phonetically like, etc.) You can also provide many more parameters, like the first name, town name, province, etc.

I repeated Step 1, but this time with the name AUBERZINSKI. And guess what? The response was somewhat similar as in the first search, with the sound like names ABERZANSKY and OBERZYNSKI to be the closest to the input name. So OBERZYNSKI seems to be quite a strong guess. But there are seven other names worthy to check. I'll leave the rest to you, of course.

Where in the US do you live? East coast or west coast?

Toronto Canada Nat26........